Understanding Poverty In India

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789290923299

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Understanding Poverty in India by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Inclusive growth needs to be achieved to reduce poverty and other disparities and raise economic growth. This book develops a poverty profile for India in view of the ongoing national and global efforts toward ensuring inclusive growth and bringing poverty levels down. This poverty profile will enable academics and policy makers to reassess and improve on the existing methodologies in estimating poverty rates, evaluate the effectiveness of existing poverty programs, and suggest alternative and complementary options for strategic intervention based on the lessons drawn from program implementation both at the state and national levels.

Author : Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee,Roland Benabou,Dilip Mookherjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0198041535

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Understanding Poverty by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee,Roland Benabou,Dilip Mookherjee Pdf

Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field, who were invited to tell the lay reader about the most important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. The essays cover a wide array of topics: the first essay is about how poverty gets measured. The next section is about the causes of poverty and its persistence, and the ideas range from the impact of colonialism and globalization to the problems of "excessive" population growth, corruption and ethnic conflict. The next section is about policy: how should we fight poverty? The essays discuss how to get drug companies to produce more vaccines for the diseases of the poor, what we should and should not expect from micro-credit, what we should do about child labor, how to design welfare policies that work better and a host of other topics. The final section is about where the puzzles lie: what are the most important anomalies, the big gaps in the way economists think about poverty? The essays talk about the puzzling reluctance of Kenyan farmers to fertilizers, the enduring power of social relationships in economic transactions in developing countries and the need to understand where aspirations come from, and much else. Every essay is written with the aim of presenting the latest and the most sophisticated in economics without any recourse to jargon or technical language.

Author : Rahul Anand,Mr.Volodymyr Tulin,Naresh Kumar
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484354490

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India by Rahul Anand,Mr.Volodymyr Tulin,Naresh Kumar Pdf

We document the evolution of poverty and inequality across Indian states during the recent period of rapid growth (2004-09), and examine the role of growth and distribution in reducing poverty. Robust economic growth has been a major driver of poverty reduction and inclusiveness in India. We explore the role of economic policies and macrofinancial conditions in explaining inclusive growth and its components, using a new measure of inclusive growth. Social expenditures, spending on education, and educational attainment rates are important for fostering inclusive growth. Macro-financial stability, with particular attention to inflation risks, is also criticial for promoting inclusive growth.

Author : M. Eswaran,A. Kotwal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:643503663

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Why Poverty Persists in India by M. Eswaran,A. Kotwal Pdf

Author : Raj Kishore Sinha
Publisher : Anamika Pub & Distributors
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8179750183

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Understanding Poverty by Raj Kishore Sinha Pdf

With reference to India; a study.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : India
ISBN : OCLC:643503663

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Why Poverty Persists in India by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aasha Kapur Mehta,Shashanka Bhide,Anand Kumar,Amita Shah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811306778

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Poverty, Chronic Poverty and Poverty Dynamics by Aasha Kapur Mehta,Shashanka Bhide,Anand Kumar,Amita Shah Pdf

This book discusses critical policy issues that need to be addressed if India wishes to achieve the SDG 1 based elusive goal of ending poverty in the country. In its nine chapters, it takes the readers through trends and estimates of poverty in India, explains changes in the way it has been measured over time and the factors that lead to persistence of poverty, draws attention to the fact that hunger is both a cause and an effect of poverty and has gender and age dimensions too. The book revisits strategies that were successful in addressing poverty emanating from situations of conflict, presents a discussion on migration as a critical coping mechanism among poor, analyses the links between ill health and poverty as well as education and poverty to draw attention to the policy imperatives that need attention. India’s report card on poverty remains dismal even though there is recognition of the importance of reducing or eliminating or ending it at both national and global levels. Despite rapid economic growth and improvement on a range of development indicators, an unacceptably high proportion of India’s population continues to suffer poverty in multiple dimensions. SDG 1 or “ending poverty in all its forms everywhere” cannot be achieved unless policies and poverty alleviation programmes understand and address chronic poverty and its dynamics. This requires that we estimate and understand the extent of poverty, the factors that lead to people getting stuck in it and the ways this can be addressed. It also requires understanding the dynamic nature of poverty or the fact that many of those who are poor are able to move out of poverty as well as the fact that many others who are not poor become impoverished. These are the issues that are comprehensively examined and addressed in this book. In addition to students, teachers and researchers in the areas of development, economic growth, equity and welfare, the book is also of great interest to policy makers, planners and non‐government agencies who are concerned with understanding and addressing poverty-related issues in the developing countries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821387337

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Poverty and Social Exclusion in India by Anonim Pdf

Despite India’s record of rapid economic growth and poverty reduction over recent decades, rising inequality in the country has been a subject of concern among policy makers, academics, and activists alike. Poverty and Social Exclusion in India focuses on social exclusion, which has its roots in India’s historical divisions along lines of caste, tribe, and the excluded sex, that is, women. These inequalities are more structural in nature and have kept entire groups trapped, unable to take advantage of opportunities that economic growth offers. Culturally rooted systems perpetuate inequality, and, rather than a culture of poverty that afflicts disadvantaged groups, it is, in fact, these inequality traps that prevent these groups from breaking out. Combining rigorous quantitative research with a discussion of these underlying processes, this book finds that exclusion can be explained by inequality in opportunities, inequality in access to markets, and inequality in voice and agency. This report will be of interest to policy makers, development practitioners, social scientists, and academics working to foster equality in India.

Author : Olivier Brito,Aditya Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Poor
ISBN : 8131606228

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Understanding Urban Poverty in India by Olivier Brito,Aditya Singh Pdf

Over the past 20 years, researchers focusing on poverty have acknowledged the need for more comprehensive approaches to poverty, combining the rigor of quantitative methods and reflexivity of qualitative approaches. This book, which offers a portrait of poverty in the city of Mumbai through a wide spectrum of social sciences - from economics to population studies and feminist epistemology - discusses some of the actions that need to be taken to tackle urban poverty. Besides providing insights into the contours of poverty, the book illustrates how to build comprehensive knowledge on poverty and exclusion. It will be of interest to students and scholars concerned with poverty issues and urbanization.

Author : Peter Alcock
Publisher : Macmillan Pub Limited
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0333692802

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Understanding Poverty by Peter Alcock Pdf

This second edition of an important text has been substantially revised and updated to incorporate new evidence and arguments regarding poverty in Britain. Comprehensive and accessible, it deals with the problems of definition, measurement and distribution of poverty and analyses the full range of debates about its causes and its possible solution. It is essential reading for students of social policy, sociology, social work and related social sciences.

Author : Sara Bennett,Lucy Gilson,Anne Mills
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134287673

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Health, Economic Development and Household Poverty by Sara Bennett,Lucy Gilson,Anne Mills Pdf

Accessible and edited by authors based at a top institution, this book provides readers with an excellent summary in an easy-to-read style of this burgeoning field of research. In this volume Bennett, Gilson and Mills have gathered together essays written by academics and experts in the fields of health policy and economic development, each underscoring the need for political commitment to meet the needs of the poor and the development of strategies to build this commitment, covering: evidence regarding the links between health, economic development and household poverty evidence on the extent to which health care systems address the needs of the poor and the near poor innovative measures to make health care interventions widely available to the poor. Current and topical, this book is of great relevance to policy makers and practitioners in the field of international health and development and researchers engaged with global health and poverty as well as being ideal reading for students of international health and development.

Author : R. Antonopoulos,I. Hirway
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230250550

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Unpaid Work and the Economy by R. Antonopoulos,I. Hirway Pdf

This book presents research findings from across the global South that substantively improves our understanding of time-use, poverty and gender equalities, to shed light on why unpaid work is indispensable to economic analysis and effective policy making.

Author : C. Mark Blackden,Quentin Wodon
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821365625

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Gender, Time Use, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa by C. Mark Blackden,Quentin Wodon Pdf

The papers in this volume examine the links between gender, time use, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. They contribute to a broader definition of poverty to include "time poverty," and to a broader definition of work to include household work. The papers present a conceptual framework linking both market and household work, review some of the available literature and surveys on time use in Africa, and use tools and approaches drawn from analysis of consumption-based poverty to develop the concept of a time poverty line and to examine linkages between time poverty, consumption poverty, and ot.

Author : Nandini Gooptu,Jonathan P. Parry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : India
ISBN : 113809966X

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Persistence of Poverty in India by Nandini Gooptu,Jonathan P. Parry Pdf

What distinguishes Persistence of Poverty from most other poverty studies is the way in which it conceptualises the problem. This volume offers a variety of alternative analytical perspectives and fresh insights into poverty that are key to addressing the problem. In looking at the day to day lived realities of the poor the volume points out that in order to understand poverty one must take into account the wider system of class and power relations in which it is rooted. This volume suggests that 'democracy in India may be as big a part of the problem as it is of the solution.'

Author : Akhil Gupta
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780822351108

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Red Tape by Akhil Gupta Pdf

Yet India's poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in the democratic project.